Asuncion, IP Agency.- The construction site of the future Oncology Day Hospital of Concepción, located in the local Regional Hospital, was inspected by the Minister of Public Health, María Teresa Barán, who highlighted the importance of improvements in the care of cancer patients in the region, as well as the decentralization plan. The director of Incan, Raúl Doria, announced that it will be operational within three months, with medical personnel trained to care for patients.
The head of the portfolio was accompanied by departmental authorities, deputy health ministers Santiago García Destéfano (Comprehensive Health Care and Social Welfare) and José Ortellado (Health Rectorship and Surveillance) and the general director of the National Cancer Institute, Raúl Doria.
Doria, head of INCAN, announced that the Oncology Day Hospital will be operational within three months, with medical personnel trained to care for patients, whose demand is significant in the area and many cannot travel to INCAN to receive treatment, he added.
She also noted that Minister Barán announced that a cooperation agreement had been reached with the Tesãi Foundation of Itaipú for the program to strengthen the early detection of breast cancer.
This agreement includes the acquisition of 32 mammograms that will be distributed throughout the country, of which two are for Concepción. He added that one will be delivered to the Día Hospital and that the equipment is a mammogram with tomosynthesis to be able to perform surgical procedures, highly complex biopsies; while the other digital mammogram will go to Horqueta, he informed.
The white-collar staff of the Regional Hospital of Concepción highlighted the importance for the department of the presence of the highest authorities of the Ministry of Health, since they consider that it is a full support from the portfolio to the region.
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2024-07-27 14:05:56
